Glenn Close
Acting
- Born:
- 1947-03-19
- Place of birth:
- Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
Biography
Glenn Close (born March 19, 1947) is an American actress and singer. In a career spanning five decades on screen and stage, she has received numerous accolades, including three Primetime Emmy Awards, three Tony Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards, as well as nominations for eight Academy Awards, three Grammy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, and a Laurence Olivier Award. She was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2019. She received the Academy Honorary Award in 2026. Close gained early recognition for her work on the stage, with her Broadway debut in the play Love for Love (1974), before going on to win three Tony Awards, two for Best Actress in a Play for her roles in the plays The Real Thing (1983) and Death and the Maiden (1992), and one for Best Actress in a Musical, the musical Sunset Boulevard (1995). She received her first Academy Award nomination for her film debut in The World According to Garp (1982), and her first Emmy nomination in 1984 for the television film Something About Amelia. Close's career further progressed throughout the 1980s and 1990s with several acclaimed film performances, including The Big Chill (1983), The Natural (1984), Fatal Attraction (1987), Dangerous Liaisons (1988), Reversal of Fortune (1990), The Paper (1994), Mars Attacks! (1996), and Air Force One (1997). During this period, she also portrayed Cruella de Vil in 101 Dalmatians (1996) and its 2000 sequel 102 Dalmatians, and voiced Kala in Tarzan (1999). Close won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for her portrayal of Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer in Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (1995), followed by two consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for playing Patty Hewes in Damages (2007–2012). In film, Close gained continued recognition in the 21st century for her roles in Albert Nobbs (2011), The Wife (2017), Hillbilly Elegy (2020), and Wake Up Dead Man (2025). Close is the president of Trillium Productions and co-founder of the website FetchDog. She has made political donations supporting Democratic politicians. She is vocal on issues such as women's rights, same-sex marriage, and mental health. Married three times, she has one daughter, Annie Starke, from her relationship with producer John Starke. Description above from the Wikipedia article Glenn Close, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
La Bola Negra
Animal Farm
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
All's Fair
Glenn Close, l'art de la transformation
The Summer Book
Hollywood Squares
Back in Action
Brothers
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
The Deliverance
A Look Through His Lens
Heart of Stone
Tom Hanks: The Nomad
The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window
Swan Song
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Show of Titles
Four Good Days
Baba Yaga
Hillbilly Elegy
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
537 Votes
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
Tehran
Celebrity IOU
The Lavender Scare
Desus & Mero
3Below: Tales of Arcadia
Let's Dance
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Tribute to a Superstar
The Green Fog
Father Figures
Marcians
Sea Oak
The Wilde Wedding
Crooked House
What Happened to Monday
The Wife
The Girl with All the Gifts
Warcraft
Anesthesia
The Great Gilly Hopkins
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Guardians of the Galaxy
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
5 to 7
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Low Down
Love, Marilyn
Casting By
Finding Your Roots
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Albert Nobbs
Discovering Hamlet
Not My Life
Hoodwinked Too! Hood VS. Evil
My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story
C à vous
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Peter Matthiessen: No Boundaries
Gates of the Arctic
Damages
Evening
Gabon The Last Eden
The Graham Norton Show
Hoodwinked!
Hollywood's Greatest Villains
Nine Lives
Heights
Tarzan II
The Chumscrubber
The Stepford Wives
Strip Search
Tracking 'The Lion in Winter'
The Lion in Winter
What I Want My Words to Do to You
In Search of the Jaguar
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Le Divorce
Brush with Fate
The Safety of Objects
Sunset Boulevard: A Look Back
The Shield
South Pacific
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
Welcome to Hollywood
Baby
102 Dalmatians
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End
SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
The West Wing
Tarzan in Concert with Phil Collins
Tarzan
Cookie's Fortune
Family Guy
The Big Chill: A Reunion
The Lady with the Torch
Will & Grace
Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration
In & Out
The View
Air Force One
Leute heute
In the Gloaming
Paradise Road
Mars Attacks!
101 Dalmatians
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
Mary Reilly
MADtv
Anne Frank Remembered
Serving in Silence - The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
Inside the Actors Studio
Ellen
The Paper
Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration
The House of the Spirits
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Skylark
Lincoln
Blast 'Em
Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
Pebble Mill
Meeting Venus
Hook
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Hamlet
The Divine Garbo
Reversal of Fortune
Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music
The Simpsons
An Amazin Era: Revised and Updated
Immediate Family
Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary
Dangerous Liaisons
American Experience
This Morning
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Stones for Ibarra
Electric Blue 29
Fatal Attraction
Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?
Rabbit Ears - The Emperor and the Nightingale
An Amazin' Era
Jagged Edge
Maxie
The Natural
The Stone Boy
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Goldene Kamera
Something About Amelia
The Big Chill
The World According to Garp
The Elephant Man
Wetten, dass..?
Orphan Train
Too Far to Go
Please Turn the Page
Saturday Night Live
The Rules of the Game
Great Performances
Tony Awards
The Oscars
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Golden Globe Awards
Encore
The Plague Monkeys
Sunset Boulevard
Diamonds on the Silver Screen
The Midnight Library
Standing By
Maud